Originally Posted by
pj
'Tis the nature of the beast, I'm afraid.
It is a lot easier for people to be civil and diplomatic, even in rabid disagreement, when they are face to face. The threat of you stomping the shit out of me for being obnoxious, rude and disrespectful is real in that case.
Here, our identities are obscured, hidden or feigned. You probably don't know where I am. There are therefore no real consequences to me stomping on your feet, spitting in your face or interrupting you. I can be one tough, brave hombre from here, in spite of you being a landscape business owner who is in great physical shape and could rearrange my face with ease.
If you want a REALLY good conversation, do it over a beer, face to face, with guns on the table.
So a one word answer to your not so rhetorical question is...
Yes.[/b]